I may be being a little dozy and just nto noticing it. But is there a place to see the most recent posts on the site? if not could there be?
Yep, on your toolbar underneath the main banner there's a link for 'new posts'. Are you a bit hungover today?
Actually, my mistake, maybe it's me that's hungover. I just noticed that the 'new posts' link only appears on the default forum skin (which is the one I use when browsing at work) and not on the writing forums skin.
If you copy the link, and post it into a forum post, it still should work. Maybe like: https://www.writingforums.org/search.php?do=getnew